The Middle District Baptist Association of Virginia convenes and delegates position themselves squarely on the side of the Confederacy. Speaking Christian nationalist language, the association declares, “if a people drew the sword in behalf of a just cause, we are that people.” Many other Southern Baptist associations have already, or will soon, openly align themselves…
The small community of Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky, finds itself in the midst of a tug of war between Confederate and Union forces. Crab Orchard is under the control of the United States, but today, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan’s Cavalry, the First Kentucky, burns the Dix River Bridge near the town and sets…
This month the Siloam Baptist Church of Greene County, Georgia meets and does something unusual for Baptist churches of the South during the war: they formally discuss the death of a soldier member. Baptists, long accustomed to not allowing the outside world to infiltrate worship services and business meetings, typically do not officially discuss in…